NEWARK, N.J. — Jeff Carter scored at 13:42 in overtime, and the Los Angeles Kings moved within two wins of their first NHL title with a 2-1 victory against the New Jersey Devils in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals Saturday night.

Jonathan Quick made 32 saves, and Drew Doughty scored on a magnificent end-to-end rush as the Kings won their 10th straight road game this postseason and their 12th in a row over the last two seasons. Both are NHL records.

The Kings are 14-2 in the playoffs. They again have an opponent wondering what’s going on.

New Jersey had won eight of 10 games in beating the Flyers and Rangers in the last two rounds in the Eastern Conference. Now the Devils are in desperate need of a victory in Game 3 Monday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

This marked the first time in 61 years that Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup finals were decided in overtime. The last occasion was the epic 1951 Stanley Cup matchup, where all five games between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens went to extra time. The Maple Leafs captured the Cup.

Carter ended this one with a great individual effort after the Kings outshot New Jersey 11-3 in OT. Only Martin Brodeur kept the Devils in the game. Carter, one of a handful of former Philadelphia Flyers playing for the Kings, corralled a rebound from behind the net, preventing the Devils from grabbing a much-needed line change. He rolled around into the slot, from Brodeur’s right-hand side, and let a wrist shot off that beat the standout goaltender along the ice on his stick side.

Teammate Dustin Penner was in front of the net as a screen, left unguarded.

It was Carter’s fifth of the postseason and it gave the Kings another big advantage in a series. The eighth-seeded Kings opened 3-0 leads in each of the first three rounds in the Western Conference.

That could come on Monday, when Game 3 is held in Los Angeles.

On this night, the Kings all gathered around Carter just off the Brodeur’s left in the faceoff circle. For the second time in as many games, Brodeur looked up to the sky, picked himself up, and skated off an overtime loser at home.